Monday, May 14, 2012

Mike Carey guest spots!

"There are literally hundreds of variations on this story in the folk
literatures of the world: it's often given a sexual dimension, but not
always. It can be tragedy, cosmic meditation, horror or farce (farce
definitely predominates), and it can be told with masses of
circumstantial detail or kept plain and simple. But at its heart, it's a
deeply conservative kind of story. The moral is: be grateful for what
you've got now, and don't mess with it. Any change is likely to be for
the worse, and if it's for the better, you'll probably screw it up
anyway because you're an idiot."

"We prefer our heroines, just like our heroes, to be real people, not
cardboard cut-outs – which, in the end, means that their gender isn’t
going to be their determining trait. It’s part of their identity,
sure. How could it not be? But it doesn’t define them, any more than a
score of other things define them. It’s in the mix, that’s all, and it
shouldn’t make a difference to how the reader responds to them."